Thoas

, a king of Tauric a Cher sones us, in the age of Orestes and Pylades. He would have immolated these two celebrated strangers on Diana’s altars, according to the barbarous customs of the country, had they not been delivered by Iphigenia. See: Iphigenia . According to some, Thoas was the son of Borysthenes. Ovid , ex Ponto , bk. 3 , poem 2.――A king of Lemnos, son of Bacchus and Ariadne the daughter of Minos, and husband to Myrine. He had been made king of Lemnos by Rhadamanthus. He was still alive when the Lemnian women conspired to kill all the males in the island, but his life was spared by his only daughter ♦ Hypsipyle, in whose favour he had resigned the crown. ♦ Hypsipyle obliged her father to depart secretly from Lemnos, to escape from the fury of the women, and he arrived safe in a neighbouring island, which some call Chios, though many suppose that Thoas was a a inated by the enraged females before he had left Lemnos. Some mythologists confound the king of Lemnos with that of Cher sones us, and suppose that they were one and the same man. According to their opinion, Thoas was very young when he retired from Lemnos, and after that he went to Tauric a Cher sones us, where he settled. Flaccus , bk. 8 , li. 208 .— Hyginus , fables 74, 120.— Ovid , Ibis , li. 384 ; Heroides , poem 6, li. 114 .— Statius , Thebaid , bk. 6 , lis. 262 & 486.— A poll on i us of Rhodes , bk. 1 , lis. 209 & 615.— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 ; bk. 3 , ch. 6 .— Euripi des , I phi gene i a .――A son of And rem on and Gorge the daughter of Œneus. He went to the Trojan war with 15, or rather 40 ships. Homer , Iliad , bk. 2 , . — Dictys Cretensis , bk. 1 .— Hyginus , fable 97.――A famous huntsman. Diodorus , bk. 4 .――A son of Icarius. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 10 .――A son of Jason and ♦ Hypsipyle queen of Lemnos. Statius , Thebaid , bk. 6 , li. 342 .――A son of Ornytion, grandson of Sisyphus.――A king of As syria, father of Adonis and Myrrha, according to Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 14 .――A man who made himself master of Miletus.――An officer of Ætolia, who strongly opposed the views of the Romans, and favoured the interest of Antiochus, B.C. 193.――One of the friends of Æneas in Italy, killed by Halesus. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 415 . ♦ ‘Hipsipyle’ replaced with ‘Hypsipyle’ for consistency